Parental Reactions to Birth of a Handicapped Child
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A handicapped child means a handicapped family.
The medical history of a 16-year-old severely handicapped girl and the social history of her family are traced, with particular emphasis on the extent to which the handicap affected each member of the family. The role of the general practitioner is also highlighted.
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illness and to answer the initial anxious questions as well as they can at this early stage of investigation. All those small but essential details are the houseman's lot. House surgeons assist at their patients' operations and perform a few operations under supervision, such as appendicectomies and stripping varicose veins. They also have their own operating list for minor operations such as t...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000283116